Comments on: There Are Great Ideas, There Are Poor Ideas, Then There’s NotchUp

By: Jon G.

Jon G. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Headhunters suck. Job board are almost pointless. There is such a drought of talent in NYC right now that I would willingly pay to interview candidates because poaching is typically how you land the best candidates. That a website makes this process simpler is brilliant.

Disclaimer: I don’t work for NotchUp, I’m the CTO for a website based in NYC. I’ve wasted unknown number of hours interviewing people not even remotely representative of their resumes.

Sign me up.

By: John Smallberries

John Smallberries — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You, sir, are an idiot. You didn’t take the time to read the brief article, but you DID take the time to proudly explain that you’re an idiot who’s too busy to read the article, then you expect anyone to write a synopsis for you? Awesome.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m sure that will be necessary so someone cannot just keep inteviewing forever. If the company you interviewed for does not feel you did it in the right spirit, they could give you a negative reputation … there’s got to be checks and balances, which in no way says that it will stop people from gaming the system but at least block it a bit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Uh.. what? Granted, I skimmed a little of this but I at least read the first half. I don’t get it. Why are they willing to pay you? What do they get out of it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why would people who are in demand and making a good amount of money want to waste a day interviewing for a few hundred dollars? Especially if they aren’t actually interested in moving. For anyone that’s truly a good candidate, they would rather get paid to get HIRED.

That’s where PROSUMES.COM comes in. Better business model, in my humble opinion.

Granted, I helped launch the company but it just makes more sense.

http://WWW.PROSUMES.COM

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…I’m going to try signing up, but under an assumed name and of course I will use a throw-away hotmail address in case it turns into a bunch of spam. I would like to hear about anyone who has made any money interviewing via Notchup. Maybe it will work. I like the idea of employers trying to ’steal’ me away from my present employer and me getting paid for it. If this allows employers to get more competetive this way, then it’s exactly what the market needs.

By: Jacob Freis

Jacob Freis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I thought the idea was to get the job and then get paid. Why propagate people into creating extremely great looking resumes just to go on interviews and get paid? Counter productive.

In anycase a company that can’t design their own web site but instead goes ahead and steals from another company (www.grandcentral.com), can’t be to original themselves.

Notchup? I think not. Notchdown to you guys!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And you, sir, are apparently a little tense. I hope you’re relaxing this weekend.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And you, sir, are apparently a little tense. I hope you’re relaxing this weekend.

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m floored by the number of people who love/hate the concept but don’t spend a moment of time reading–carefully–the Terms of Service.

Compare it to LinkedIn’s TOS/Privacy Policy.

There’s a couple of points I think are getting over-looked:

1) You cannot see what your privacy settings might be until you register and agree to the TOS
2) They’re not responsible for what recruiters / third parties do with your resume or email address
3) If you cancel your account it’s “marked as deleted” in their database. Not deleted. Marked as such. Got it? Good.
4) If they sell your information, they’re not responsible for anything that happens to it downstream; the only way you can get off of those mailing lists, etc. is to contact whomever they sell to, and whomever they sell to, and so on and so forth. Plus, those people may all have “cached” versions of your information, so if they get a data snapshot of NU today, you cancel tomorrow and they get a new snapshot and sell it–guess what? Those companies will do a merge to remove duplicates–they’re not going to go out of their way and REMOVE you unless you know how to track them down.

There’s money in the list they’re generating.

5) Yep, it’s easy to use that LinkedIn slurp they’ve got set up for you. And, of course, all of your information that is respected and protected at LinkedIn… Well, different set of rules now.

Pay attention to the TOS and decide if giving up your information is really worth it.

http://www.userglue.com/blog/2008/01/27/notchup-privacy-down/

By: Rani

Rani — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My company Leapways.com is also focusing on Job and career market. The main difference we have is it is 100% free of charge for both employers and job seekers.

We will be soon launching an Interview Service which is aimed for the hiring managers. The idea is to take some pressure out of the hiring manager (who has plenty of other things to do). We will worry about the filtering process. The bottom-line is we will take the interview and certify a candidate.

Rani
Vice President
LeapConcepts

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why would anyone use Notchup? Because not everyone graduated from a “Top 25″ school as required by your elitist website.

By: Scott King

Scott King — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, it looks like the honeymoon is over for NotchUp. They appear to have some competition. There’s a new site called Applicant Tree which is offering a very similar service. [link to Press Release] Instead of paying you to interview, they’re going to pay you every time a company wants to look at your résumé. They might be on to something. You get paid without the hassle of having to get all dressed up in your monkey suit.